Nope. My kids clean bathrooms regularly. I’m just done with parents who hide behind this fake concern for teachers. |
You realize that the more kids invest in their surroundings, the easier it is for teachers to teach, right? I'm sure many parents, including myself, would gladly volunteer their time teaching kids how to clean their shared spaces if it meant that more kids learned to be decent citizens. If you're among the ones who would decline, we already know that. Many parents volunteer hundreds of hours a year to clean up after your precious snowflakes so the teachers don't have to waste their time. |
Totally agree and I would do the same. |
The parents who would pitch in to help generally already have kids who are polite, hardworking, and helpful. Those kids would be dutifully scrubbing the toilets while the ones who never turn in classwork and wander the halls all day would be scrolling on their phones and begging their parents to Door Dash them lunch. There would be no consequences for not helping, just as there are no consequences for not handing in work and not going to class. The sentiment behind this idea is understandable but the wheels would fall off in about a week. |
No. Poor use of time. Schools are already failing miserably at teaching academics. The last thing they need to implementing some kid-run cleaning system. There are paid custodians that already do this.
They can clean your bathroom at home or send them to summer camp for some old fashioned bathroom cleaning |
I am a teacher and I 100% think students should be responsible for cleaning most of the school. When kids have to clean they take care of things. |
Kids cleaning bathrooms, seriously? Our school had norovirus so badly a few years ago that they had to shut down the school for a day in order to clean it. So no thanks. |
My kid gets one break all day - a 20 minute lunch. He has 5 minutes to change classes, and no study hall or recess. So when would he be cleaning? I think not. School is already enough of a slog. |
Thank you. I’m glad you chimed in to put a stop to parents claiming the teachers would quit if kids had to do this. We know that’s BS but thank you for confirming. |
Poor baby. Your kid is not special and there is plenty of time during their 7 hour day for a 10-20 min chore. I assure you they would survive and thrive. |
NP. Mine can because I taught them at home. I’m not a lazy POS who needs the school to teach my kid basic life skills. And no, my kid isn’t going to clean up the feces that your kid threw at the walls. |
[img]
Ok, so you’re good with the school day ending at 5 instead of 3 so you can supervise kids cleaning? |
Someone mentioned it up thread, but this is the practice in Japan, where students are responsible for cleaning the whole school.
Not for nothing, Japan is an extremely clean and neat society. And Japan’s sports teams and their fans are legendary for leaving locker rooms and stadiums clean at international sports competitions. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/03/football/j...you-locker-room-trnd https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/20...p-at-world-cup-video Obviously it is more than just making kids clean up the schools but an entire cultural philosophy of taking stewardship for the shared environment. |
I teach at a middle school and kids vandalizing or trashing the bathroom is a near daily occurrence. The maintenance crew has to shut down the bathroom and fix/clean whatever the kids did and it’s a huge waste of resources and time. It also normalizes this kind of behavior and lack of regard for your community. If the kids were responsible for cleaning their own bathrooms, I very much doubt that this would happen. |
I’m not teaching your kids how to read if I have to also teach them to clean toilets. |